APPENDIX 



PART I 



[The following notes of chases between the years 1780 and 

 1825, when the old staghounds were given up and sold, are 

 taken chiefly from memoranda made by the late Mr. Boyse. 

 I cannot, as I have already stated, expect that they will be 

 of great interest to the general reader; but by those still 

 living, who have taken part in the chases recorded, and by 

 the sportsman w^ho is acquainted with the country, I trust 

 that they may be appreciated, and that they may serve to 

 revive many pleasant recollections of events and incidents 

 connected with the noblest of British sports.] 



August 2 ird, 1780. — Found the great stag 2it Whitefield 

 in Marwood ; killed him in Roach's Ham, in Sherwell, 

 near Barnstaple. His haunches weighed 105 lbs. One 

 of them was sent to General Monckton at Plymouth ; 

 this was the largest and fattest stag killed for many a 

 season. 



September 20th. — Met at Bratton, found again in White- 

 field ; lay on the pack at Monkley in Marwood ; the stag 

 broke for Bowden, and then over the Racedown, with 

 a very good scent to Churchill and Eastdown Mills ; then 

 to Arlington and on to Postgate and Westland pound, 

 and from this over Chapman's Burrows to Exehead. 

 Here a check occurred ; the hounds were cast forward 

 but could not hit the scent ; on backing it, he was fresh 



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